Education: The N.E.A. Takes a Stand

"The issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking
at what we do in the next half-hour." The issuewhether Communists
should be allowed to teachwas far & away the nation's knottiest
academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the
powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national
members) took its stand.

Only five delegates (with the backing of Prof. Herbert H. Phillips,
recently fired from, the University of Washington as a party member)
thought that Communists had any place in teaching. The other 2,882
delegates thought otherwise, and so the N.E.A. voted to bar Communists
from...